A Syrian official said his country would not respond to an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to the WikiLeaks cables. The foreign ministry dismissed the UAE’s claims to three islands occupied by Iran. Police arrested four journalists of an opposition newspaper.
Shell shocked
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Over the past six months, more than 600 Taliban and allied terrorist groups’ leaders have been killed or captured, 2,000 fighters have been killed, and another 4,100 have been captured.
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New push to lift Kabul’s firepower
Antonio Martinez, who is also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate a car bomb outside an Armed Services recruitment center in Maryland. According to the Justice Department, the plot was a sting operation, and it doesn’t appear Hussain had any outside help.
Security forces detained 35 al Qaeda leaders and fighters in Anbar, seven wanted men in Basrah, and four terrorists in Mosul. Two people were killed in bombings in Baghdad. Deaths due to the insurgency have dropped for the month of November.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 17 Pakistani civilians in an attack at a market in Kohat. General Kayani said the situation in South Waziristan is “under control.”
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, and Wardak. The Taliban killed two ISAF troops in the south. Seventeen Taliban fighters surrendered in Kunduz.
Twenty people were killed during clashes between clans in central Somalia. Two people were killed during fighting in Mogadishu. The military executed a Somali soldier for killing another soldier.
Thirteen people were wounded in a bomb blast at a khat market Sana’s. Parliament summoned the deputy prime minister to answer questions about allegations in the WikiLeaks document. President Saleh insisted Yemen is not a base for terrorist groups.
Man arrested in Md. recruitment center bomb plot
US commanders re-balance strategy in Afghanistan
Wikileaks: Syria accused of supplying SCUD missiles to Hezbollah
Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan agree to Afghan drugs cooperation
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan takes root in increasingly insecure northern Afghan provinces
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US soldier Bowe Bergdahl appears in Taliban video
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is growing its fleet of “suicide ships” to attack shipping in the Gulf; a defector claimed 9,000 such ships exist. The United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister called on Iran to end the occupation of three islands claimed by the emirate.
Pakistan: Northwestern market attack ‘aimed at stoking sectarian strife’
India says local Islamists bombed pilgrim city
The attack is the third of its kind in Pakistan in three days.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of al Qaeda ideologue Anwar al Awlaki, who sought to have his son removed from a list targeting him for assassination. The judge said the father had no standing to file the case and the executive branch must make such a decision.
Sober take in Afghanistan